Everything started with a promise

The O’Gorman family was shattered when brother and sister, Paul and Jean, fell victim to cancer within nine months of each other.14 year old Paul died in February 1987, only nine weeks after his initial diagnosis of leukaemia in 1986. Before Paul died he asked his parents, Eddie and Marion O’Gorman to help other children with leukaemia. His sister Jean – in defiance of her cancer, had started to raise funds for children with leukaemia in her brother’s memory – died just nine months later that November.

The strapline for Children with Cancer UK is 'fighting the UK's biggest child killer'. In 2015, cancers, followed by diseases of the nervous system, remained the most common causes of death for children aged 1 to 15 years.
Source: UK Office of National Statistics 'Statistical bulletin - Childhood mortality in England and Wales:2015'
Published April 2017. See Section 7.